The Imperial War Museum examines the role of Britain and the Commonwealth in conflicts since 1914. Experience the smells, sights and sounds of a first world war trench, or life in one of London’s air-raid shelters.

The Imperial War Museum is devoted to the twentieth century and is a place of great diversity. The exhibits range from tanks and aircraft to personal letters and ration books; they include films, photographs and sound recordings, and some of the century's best-known paintings.

New additions to the galleries include The Secret War about espionage and undercover operations. The displays of work by war artists is part of the largest collection of 20th century British art outside the Tate Modern.